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Law and Criminology

Explore your Library Subject Guide to find useful information and resources to support you throughout your studies and develop your research skills and digital capabilities - from the start of your course to your final project or dissertation.

Databases

Databases are search tools designed to help you explore scholarly literature such as journal articles and conference papers (written record of a presentation given at an academic or professional conference). Most databases allow you to sort, filter, save and export your results.

 

Legal materials are documents that tell you what the law is, or which explain, discuss and comment on the law.

  • Find out more about discovering and understanding legal materials:
  • In addition to online legal research sources, the Library has a print collection of primary legal material, mostly located in the LAWS sequence in Western Bank Library on Level 2.

Journals

Journals are published on a regular basis to showcase new scientific research. They contain articles (usually referred to as 'papers'). There are different types of journal paper - for example, research papers present the findings of new research, while review papers summarise or analyse the findings of multiple research papers. View the "How to read a journal article" tutorial to learn more:

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